These companies are not your friends

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*These VC backed companies are not your friends. Outside the VC hype bubble there are a lot of great tools that are affordable where they optimise for customers over investors.

Yes, this is a promising trend. But it is the exception, not the rule.

Amen to that. The sooner one realises this the better. Corporations (generally) don’t care about you and also will never give free handouts. The main goal is to maximise profit and everything else gets cut.

They care about you. Especially when they are small. But at a certain scale it becomes about spreadsheets more than any individual. It’s almost impossible not to fall into this trap unless the product is open source or has some other checks built in.

Corporations are NOT our friends?! How dare you!!!! I refuse to accept this Raymmar, if that is even your real name!!!!!

😂 It’s not my name! It’s my corporate shield! Part of a covert op designed to confuse independent creators!

Fair. However, "they" are made up of people. People who have personalities, beliefs, friendships, skills, talent. They are no different from you and me. So yes, the corporate machine is not our friend, but let us not forget that those inside the machine are people too.

Very good reminder for everyone, especially someone like me who has a lot of brand loyalty.

It’s easy to do. I’m loyal as well. But I’ve also been burned. And I’ve seen a lot of people burned as well. It’s a transactional relationship. And it’s only valuable as long as it’s valuable. After that it’s everyone for themselves.